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just read on a face book site, that a father is asking that new years be celebrated without guns. I myself do not condone firing aimlessly into the air. But I also think if you are going to plead for somehting have your facts straight.

Can a bullet travel a couple miles much less one mile? at first I thought, well maybe at the right angle and height? Anyone know for sure?

If you voted for Obama to prove you are not a racist...
what will you do now to prove you are not stupid?

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas

"They who can who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve niether liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin

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If you voted for Obama to prove you are not a racist...
what will you do now to prove you are not stupid?

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas

"They who can who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve niether liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin

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amzbrady wrote:

just read on a face book site, that a father is asking that new years be celebrated without guns. I myself do not condone firing aimlessly into the air. But I also think if you are going to plead for somehting have your facts straight.

Can a bullet travel a couple miles much less one mile? at first I thought, well maybe at the right angle and height? Anyone know for sure?

Myth-busters did a segment on this idea,that bullets fired straight up (or at a generally straight up trajectory) in the air are dangerous when they tumble back down to earth. It was found that the terminal velocity of standard 9mm and 223 caliber bullets, falling straight back to earth is not enough to penetrate any part of the human body. Around 110 FPS if I remember correctly.

The reference is at about mid page. Long and short, it might give you a bit of a bump on the head, but it wont seriously injure you.

What they ALSO found however, isif the bullet is fired at an angle ofabout 30% and if it maintains its spin and arch while coming back down, the same bulletMAY indeedmaintain enough energy to penetrate the human body, and it COULD kill someone.

All that being said, firing ANY bullet without being aware of where its going to end up violates one of the golden rules of firearms handling, and in my opinion, anyone who needlesslydischarges a firearm without regard totheir backstop or consideration of the ending point of that bullet is an IDIOT.

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A stray bullet that injured a fan in her motor home at Texas Motor Speedway may have been from a rifle of a target shooter, police said Tuesday.

A 49-year-old man contacted police after being told of news reports that a woman was hit in the arm Sunday morning by a bullet piercing through the roof of her recreational vehicle camped at the speedway, according to Fort Worth police.

The man told detectives Tuesday that he fired five or six rounds from a .50 caliber Vulcan single-shot rifle near a rifle range about five miles from the speedway from about 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., police said.

Detectives confiscated the Vulcan rifle and will conduct ballistics tests. If it matches the recovered bullet, the man could face a charge of deadly conduct for recklessly firing a weapon in the direction of others, police said.

Before any charges are considered, detectives will submit evidence from the investigation to the district attorney, police said.

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NavyLT wrote:

The answer is simple - get out your good 'ol trusty black powder muzzleloader, load her up with your standard black powder load, and stuff a nice, tight wad of tissue paper down on top of the powder. Blast away! Muzzle in a safe direction, of course.

You see that at all of the New England Patriot home games when the Pats score.

He wore his gun outside his pants for all the honest world to see. Pancho & Lefty

The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us....There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! ...The war is inevitable–and let it come! I repeat it, Sir, let it come …………. PATRICK HENRY speech 1776

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NavyLT wrote:

The answer is simple - get out your good 'ol trusty black powder muzzleloader, load her up with your standard black powder load, and stuff a nice, tight wad of tissue paper down on top of the powder. Blast away! Muzzle in a safe direction, of course.

You can do the same thing with a 12ga shotgun shell. Fill the shell with a generous supply of pyrodex or triple-x. Some Toilet paper over the top of the powder, fold the shell closed and seal with some candle-wax. Black powder won't overload a modern shotgun. Just ask any SeaFair Pirate

Of course you'r neighbor will wonder where all the tp confetti came from.

:celebrate:celebrate:celebrate:celebrate

"If I shoot all the ammo I am carrying I either won't need anymore or more won't help"

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When I was a teenager, a man in my hometown would always celebrate New Years with his 1911A1. 1956 he stepped outside, loaded his 1911 spread his feet about shoulder width, pointed the gun at the earth while looking at his watch, and at the stroke of midnight, shot off his right big toe.

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Trigger Dr wrote:

When I was a teenager, a man in my hometown would always celebrate New Years with his 1911A1. 1956 he stepped outside, loaded his 1911 spread his feet about shoulder width, pointed the gun at the earth while looking at his watch, and at the stroke of midnight, shot off his right big toe.

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I have a very loud wooden 'clacker' noisemaker to spin over my head on New Years.It is safer than upward-directed gunfire, and nearly as loud.It is a copy of what the military used for gas attack alarmsback in WWI. Actually the same type of gizmo was used to direct troop movements as far back as the Civil War.

People beg me to bring it along on New Years Eve, and beg me NOT to bring it along any other time.

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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -John Stuart Mill

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Bad advice, shouldnt shoot at all. Check local codes and municipalities. Legal noise makers are best, besides, I will be drinking so mine will belocked up when I do. Dr Jykel, Mr Hyde affect when drinking.

If you voted for Obama to prove you are not a racist...
what will you do now to prove you are not stupid?

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas

"They who can who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve niether liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin

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Bad advice, shouldnt shoot at all. Check local codes and municipalities. Legal noise makers are best, besides, I will be drinking so mine will belocked up when I do. Dr Jykel, Mr Hyde affect when drinking.

Yeah. Tell OCDO not to shoot guns. That'll work. :P

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -John Stuart Mill